.TH "RTC_GEOMETRY_TYPE_QUAD" "3" "" "" "Embree Ray Tracing Kernels 3"
.SS NAME
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\f[C]
RTC_GEOMETRY_TYPE_QUAD\ \-\ quad\ geometry\ type
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.SS SYNOPSIS
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\f[C]
#include\ <embree3/rtcore.h>

RTCGeometry\ geometry\ =
\ \ rtcNewGeometry(device,\ RTC_GEOMETRY_TYPE_QUAD);
\f[]
.fi
.SS DESCRIPTION
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Quad meshes are created by passing \f[C]RTC_GEOMETRY_TYPE_QUAD\f[] to
the \f[C]rtcNewGeometry\f[] function call.
The quad indices can be specified by setting an index buffer
(\f[C]RTC_BUFFER_TYPE_INDEX\f[] type) and the quad vertices by setting a
vertex buffer (\f[C]RTC_BUFFER_TYPE_VERTEX\f[] type).
See \f[C]rtcSetGeometryBuffer\f[] and
\f[C]rtcSetSharedGeometryBuffer\f[] for more details on how to set
buffers.
The index buffer contains an array of four 32\-bit indices per quad
(\f[C]RTC_FORMAT_UINT4\f[] format), and the number of primitives is
inferred from the size of that buffer.
The vertex buffer contains an array of single precision \f[C]x\f[],
\f[C]y\f[], \f[C]z\f[] floating point coordinates
(\f[C]RTC_FORMAT_FLOAT3\f[] format), and the number of vertices is
inferred from the size of that buffer.
The vertex buffer can be at most 16 GB large.
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A quad is internally handled as a pair of two triangles
\f[C]v0,v1,v3\f[] and \f[C]v2,v3,v1\f[], with the
\f[C]u\[aq]\f[]/\f[C]v\[aq]\f[] coordinates of the second triangle
corrected by \f[C]u\ =\ 1\-u\[aq]\f[] and \f[C]v\ =\ 1\-v\[aq]\f[] to
produce a quad parametrization where \f[C]u\f[] and \f[C]v\f[] are in
the range 0 to 1.
Thus the parametrization of a quad uses the first vertex \f[C]p0\f[] as
base point, and the vector \f[C]p1\ \-\ p0\f[] as \f[C]u\f[]\-direction,
and \f[C]p3\ \-\ p0\f[] as v\-direction.
Thus vertex attributes \f[C]t0,t1,t2,t3\f[] can be bilinearly
interpolated over the quadrilateral the following way:
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\f[C]
t_uv\ =\ (1\-v)((1\-u)*t0\ +\ u*t1)\ +\ v*((1\-u)*t3\ +\ u*t2)
\f[]
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.PP
Mixed triangle/quad meshes are supported by encoding a triangle as a
quad, which can be achieved by replicating the last triangle vertex
(\f[C]v0,v1,v2\f[] \-> \f[C]v0,v1,v2,v2\f[]).
This way the second triangle is a line (which can never get hit), and
the parametrization of the first triangle is compatible with the
standard triangle parametrization.
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A quad whose vertices are laid out counter\-clockwise has its geometry
normal pointing upwards outside the front face, like illustrated in the
following picture.
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For multi\-segment motion blur, the number of time steps must be first
specified using the \f[C]rtcSetGeometryTimeStepCount\f[] call.
Then a vertex buffer for each time step can be set using different
buffer slots, and all these buffers must have the same stride and size.
.SS EXIT STATUS
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On failure \f[C]NULL\f[] is returned and an error code is set that can
be queried using \f[C]rtcDeviceGetError\f[].
.SS SEE ALSO
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[rtcNewGeometry]
